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| d9f7403 | To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 8639bb7 | Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?" | creative-process criticism critique inspiration on-writing reviewing reviews writers | Connie Willis | |
| f30f1d6 | The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. | Connie Willis | ||
| 4ef4f6d | People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. | finance government | Adam Smith | |
| a2161f8 | The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8abc64e | I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| a497fef | Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker's dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren't in our favor. "Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar," I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. "That's a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 864dfc3 | Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 31f3fd9 | Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definiti.. | order spontaneity | Tom Stoppard | |
| 6a527f8 | But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. | death-penalty punishment the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man vengeance victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 74e1e24 | Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. | errors life remorse | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 2338770 | I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a5bbcc8 | If she likes makeup, let her wear it. If she likes fashion, let her dress up. But if she doesn't like either, let her be. Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fd719bc | It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way. | tiredness | Markus Zusak | |
| d19efb0 | Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 9e1d913 | You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0f95291 | Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want." | life passion | Markus Zusak | |
| 3a96601 | Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti (Follow your road and let the people say) | Dante Alighieri | ||
| ea179f3 | He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 451291b | Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it. | Voltaire | ||
| f8eb3cb | My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from which it all begins, the seed which holds all the promise and potential, which grows into a tree. Everybody can see that. But only a few can recognize that there is anther force operating here as well-the future tree itself, which wants so badly .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b410c8d | We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?" | free-will life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b642f58 | Four givens are particularly relevant for psycho-therapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 1c68682 | Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. | elephants loyalty temptation | Neil Gaiman | |
| bb958d4 | He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 235538e | We save our lives in such unlikely ways. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a29d665 | Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience. | Robert Greene | ||
| 7089ec3 | But--let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got a lovely five-pound T-bone steak sitting on the sideboard in the kitchen waiting to be cooked while she chats with the guests in the living room--has a few drinks and whatnot. But then she excuses herself to go into the kitchen to cook the steak--and it's gone. And there's the family cat, in the corner, sedately washing it's face.".. | joke ontology | Philip K. Dick | |
| 8d877d2 | They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. | humanity science understanding | Michael Crichton | |
| 0e23887 | Ellie said, "Isn't it a little warm for black?" You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler," he said. "I could look at your legs all day. But no, as a matter of fact, black is an excellent color for heat. If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat. Efficient radiation. In any case, I wear only two colors, black and gray." Ellie was staring at him, her mouth open. "These colors are appropriate for any occasion," Malc.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 9c737cd | As you were, I was. As I am, you will be. | philosophy | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| c316f5d | Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment. | politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| fbaefdc | right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ed4a0ed | Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| fe33a71 | There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen -- despite the forked tongue of fate that has put.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 826ba77 | The truth was this: Love is a decision. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| b2b205f | Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For br.. | Alice Walker | ||
| e8ddb30 | I am I am I am. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 75c458e | No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| cbc8189 | That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with...making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2ecdfb3 | People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 7b42f4d | I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.' And then we started. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 03fe72f | Civilised my syphilised yarbles. | yarbles | Anthony Burgess | |
| 1172b76 | You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you." | the-little-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |